Sunday, June 15, 2008
I feel so dirty
So make it 11 winning sessions is a row.
+$140 at the casino playing $5/$10 limit Omaha/Hold'em round-by-round and then +$30 at a home game playing $1/$2 limit mixed games on Friday night.
I played really bad in both sessions. As an example. At the casino, we were playing the Omaha round. Two big spenders from California just settled in and started straddling and raising....you know, really juicing up the game.
On this one particular hand I was in middle position. It was folded to me. One big spender was on the button, the other big spender was in the small blind , so I had my targets "locked in". I raised with 8x-8x-Jh-Ah. One late position player calls as does the big spender on the button.
The flop comes 3x-6x-7h. I check. LP player checks. The button bets. I make a gigantic donkish call reasoning that I had an overpair and a backdoor flush draw. Plus, I held 2 of the straight cards in my hand. Plus, I really figured the big spender to be putting me on a hand like AA or KK and he may be trying to run a bluff since he has position.
The late position player folds.
The turn brings the 10h making the board 3x-6x-7h-10h. I picked up the nut flush draw, so I check/call. If this guy is bluffing, he's not giving up. Maybe he has a hand after all. There are about 100 straights on the board right now. I guess he might have hit that flop.
The river is a thing of beauty, 2h for a board of 3x-6x-7h-10h-2h. I figured (correctly) that the big spender from California would not be one to miss a bet - and could not put me on running hearts to make a flush, so I check raised him on the river and score a nice pot.
He was incensed and started calling me names. I had to agree with him.
My opening raise was OK. The call on the flop was horrendous. The turn call was OK with the nut flush draw. The check on the river was horrible as well - luckily it worked for an extra bet.
I carried my bad play onto the home game, where I ended the night completing the straddle cap on several hands of Omaha 8OB. This is such a bad play. Think about it. When 3 players straddle, re-straddle, and cap-straddle, anyone with an average hand can call and take a flop.
This is exactly what happened. We'd end up taking the flops 6/7 handed with 24 to 28 small bets in the pot. Then, on the flop someone would bet, and everyone else was getting like 30:1 to make a call. I'm not sure there is a hand-to-board pairing that is a 30:1 underdog. So, everyone calls. Now on the turn, everyone is getting like 15:1 on a call (so even if you have like 3 outs to scoop, you are getting about the right price). It was mayhem.
Another cool hand was when we were playing 5 handed Omaha 8. I pickup AA28. I raise and am called. The flop comes 2-4-10. The other player bets out. I figure my AA might be good for high, and I had a bad emergency low draw. So I call. I'm not as scared to play bad lows when HU in Omaha8 (this may be a leak).
The turn comes 3 for a board of 2-4-10-3. Joel bets. I raise and tell him that I've already made a wheel. He says 'thanks' and mucks his hand face up. He held AA2X. I showed him my bluff. He is a little stunned that I would lie like that to steal the pot. When I start raking the pot, he is looking at me like I should chop it up and split it with him. So, I ask, "are you thinking I should chop this pot with you?". He says, "well yea, after all, you lied." (or something like that).
I didn't split the pot with him, but I felt a little guilty. That is until I started to think about it. Isn't lying and gamesmanship part of the fun?
+$140 at the casino playing $5/$10 limit Omaha/Hold'em round-by-round and then +$30 at a home game playing $1/$2 limit mixed games on Friday night.
I played really bad in both sessions. As an example. At the casino, we were playing the Omaha round. Two big spenders from California just settled in and started straddling and raising....you know, really juicing up the game.
On this one particular hand I was in middle position. It was folded to me. One big spender was on the button, the other big spender was in the small blind , so I had my targets "locked in". I raised with 8x-8x-Jh-Ah. One late position player calls as does the big spender on the button.
The flop comes 3x-6x-7h. I check. LP player checks. The button bets. I make a gigantic donkish call reasoning that I had an overpair and a backdoor flush draw. Plus, I held 2 of the straight cards in my hand. Plus, I really figured the big spender to be putting me on a hand like AA or KK and he may be trying to run a bluff since he has position.
The late position player folds.
The turn brings the 10h making the board 3x-6x-7h-10h. I picked up the nut flush draw, so I check/call. If this guy is bluffing, he's not giving up. Maybe he has a hand after all. There are about 100 straights on the board right now. I guess he might have hit that flop.
The river is a thing of beauty, 2h for a board of 3x-6x-7h-10h-2h. I figured (correctly) that the big spender from California would not be one to miss a bet - and could not put me on running hearts to make a flush, so I check raised him on the river and score a nice pot.
He was incensed and started calling me names. I had to agree with him.
My opening raise was OK. The call on the flop was horrendous. The turn call was OK with the nut flush draw. The check on the river was horrible as well - luckily it worked for an extra bet.
I carried my bad play onto the home game, where I ended the night completing the straddle cap on several hands of Omaha 8OB. This is such a bad play. Think about it. When 3 players straddle, re-straddle, and cap-straddle, anyone with an average hand can call and take a flop.
This is exactly what happened. We'd end up taking the flops 6/7 handed with 24 to 28 small bets in the pot. Then, on the flop someone would bet, and everyone else was getting like 30:1 to make a call. I'm not sure there is a hand-to-board pairing that is a 30:1 underdog. So, everyone calls. Now on the turn, everyone is getting like 15:1 on a call (so even if you have like 3 outs to scoop, you are getting about the right price). It was mayhem.
Another cool hand was when we were playing 5 handed Omaha 8. I pickup AA28. I raise and am called. The flop comes 2-4-10. The other player bets out. I figure my AA might be good for high, and I had a bad emergency low draw. So I call. I'm not as scared to play bad lows when HU in Omaha8 (this may be a leak).
The turn comes 3 for a board of 2-4-10-3. Joel bets. I raise and tell him that I've already made a wheel. He says 'thanks' and mucks his hand face up. He held AA2X. I showed him my bluff. He is a little stunned that I would lie like that to steal the pot. When I start raking the pot, he is looking at me like I should chop it up and split it with him. So, I ask, "are you thinking I should chop this pot with you?". He says, "well yea, after all, you lied." (or something like that).
I didn't split the pot with him, but I felt a little guilty. That is until I started to think about it. Isn't lying and gamesmanship part of the fun?
